This Day, That Year

Item from March 8, 1995, in China Daily: Labor Minister Li Boyong (right) vowed to hold the country's urban unemployment rate below 3 percent by launching a series of programs to address the surplus labor in the cities.

The minister's pledge comes at a time when China expects to see a sharp increase in the number of job seekers as it kicks off a major reform to invigorate State enterprises. ...

In 1994, urban unemployment was 2.9 percent.